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  • 17 July 2014
  • Type: Press Release

  Emily Logan to become first Chief Commissioner of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission

  Ombudsman for Children, Emily Logan, has announced today (Thursday) that she is to be nominated as Chief Commissioner of the new Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. Ms Logan will step down as Ombudsman for Children ...

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  • 1 July 2014
  • Type: Press Release
  • Topic: Children in Care, Family Law

  Ombudsman for Children welcomes publication of the Special Inquiry

  The Ombudsman for Children Emily Logan today, 1st July, welcomed the decision by the Minister for Justice to publish the findings of her Special Inquiry in to the exercise by members of the Garda Síochána of powers ...

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  • 25 April 2014
  • Type: Press Release

  Children’s Ombudsman marks 10th anniversary with call for new accountability structures to ensure independence of Ombudsman institutions

  As the Ombudsman for Children marks the tenth anniversary of her Office by hosting a conference examining the State’s relationship with children and families, Emily Logan said it is time not just to reflect on the ...

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  • 5 March 2014
  • Type: Press Release
  • Topic: Children in Care

  New Child and Family Agency must aim to assume role of parent for children in their care

  OCO Report on Repetitive Root Cause Issues regarding Children in Care laid before Oireachtas Ombudsman for Children, Emily Logan, has said that the New Child and Family Agency, must assume the role of a parent for ...

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  • 3 February 2014
  • Type: Press Release
  • Topic: Family Law

  Her Honour, Judge Rosemary Horgan, President of the District Court & the Ombudsman for Children, Emily Logan launch Information Campaign for Separating Parents & their Children

  The President of the District Court, Her Honour, Judge Rosemary Horgan and the Ombudsman for Children, Emily Logan have launched, today (Monday) a targeted information campaign supporting separating parents and their children. This campaign is the ...

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  • 20 November 2013
  • Type: Press Release
  • Topic: Health

  Development of National Policy on Child-friendly Healthcare & inter-sectoral alliances all key to Children’s Rights in Health

  The Ombudsman for Children’s Office and the HSE have published separate but complementary documents about children’s rights in healthcare settings today, Universal Children’s Day, Wed, 20th November, (Anniversary of UN General Assembly adoption of the UN ...

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  • 8 November 2013
  • Type: Statement
  • Topic: Family Law

  Statement by Ombudsman for Children following the Supreme Court ruling on government information on the Children’s Referendum today

  “Saturday is an historic day for children inIreland. It is the first time that the Irish people will have an opportunity to decide how they would like the status of children to be reflected in Bunreacht ...

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  • 25 October 2013
  • Type: Statement
  • Topic: Children in Care

  Statement by the Ombudsman for Children on agreement reached with Minister for Justice to investigate cases of children taken into State Care

  The Ombudsman for Children Emily Logan today (25 October 2013) said she had reached agreement to secure the power to investigate An Garda Síochána’s actions in recent events in which two children were taken in to ...

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  • 24 October 2013
  • Type: Press Release
  • Topic: Children in Care

  Ombudsman for Children will undertake investigation into children taken into State Care

  The Ombudsman for Children is an independent statutory authority with direct accountability to the Oireachtas, whose powers are set out in the Ombudsman for Children Act, 2002. The Ombudsman for Children intends to investigate recent events ...

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  • 1 October 2013
  • Type: Press Release
  • Topic: Child Protection

  Children’s Ombudsman finds HSE failed to provide support & therapeutic services for a child following allegations of sexual abuse

  The Ombudsman for Children has published a report today (Tuesday) in which she found that the HSE failed to provide timely support and therapeutic services for a protracted period of time to a child who made ...